Nazanin Boniadi auditioned for role as Tom Cruise's wife: Vanity Fair

Tom Cruise is denying allegations that the Church of Scientology tried and failed to find him a wife.

In Vanity Fair’s October cover story, reporter Maureen Orth claims high-ranking Scientology officials headed by Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife were tasked with finding a suitable partner for the Mission Impossible star back in 2004, eventually settling on soap actress Nazanin Boniadi, who dated Cruise from 2004- 2005. It’s a claim both Cruise and Scientology are fervently denying.

“Lies in a different font are still lies — designed to sell magazines,” a Cruise representative said in response to allegations.

“The entire story is hogwash,” The Church of Scientology echoed in a statement to ABC News. “There was no project, secret or otherwise, ever conducted by the Church to find a bride [audition or otherwise] for any member.”

In the VF article, Orth states that, “according to several sources, the organization devised an elaborate auditioning process in which actresses who were already Scientology members were called in, told they were auditioning for a new training film, and then asked a series of curious questions including: ‘What do you think of Tom Cruise?’”

The report asserts that Boniadi passed the initial audition, and once she had, the then 24-year-old was reportedly told she had been selected for “a very important mission,” and was ordered to break up with her boyfriend.

The report goes on to say that during the relationship, Boniadi moved into Cruise’s house and was given a credit card. But the union went sour when the Cruise’s displays of affection became too great for the actress, leading to a breakup. According to VF, Boniadi signed a confidentiality agreement with the Church regarding her relationship with Cruise. When the future How I Met Your Mother actress told a friend about the relationship, VF reports she was punished by the Church, ordered into “scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush, cleaning tiles with acid and digging ditches in the middle of the night.”

Speaking to these allegations, the Church claimed to ABC that “no church members were ‘used,’ nor were they punished, nor silenced.”

However, former Church member and Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis — himself the recent focus of a Scientology exposé in the New Yorker — backed up Vanity Fair’s claims. In an email to ShowBiz411.com, Haggis explained his silence about the story, until now.

“Naz was embarrassed by her unwitting involvement in this incident and never wanted it to come out, so I kept silent,” Haggis wrote in the email published Sunday. “I was deeply disturbed by how the highest ranking members of a church could so easily justify using one of their members; how they so callously punished her and then so effectively silenced her when it was done.”